DeepSeek has captured the world’s attention this week, with an unexpected release of the more-open AI model from China, for a reported mere $5 million training cost. While there’s lots of buzz ...

Earlier this week, a team of security researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Ruhr University Bochum presented a pair of papers on two side-channel speculative execution attacks ...

Speculative execution has caused headaches going way back. [Bruce Dawson] tells one such story he experienced back in 2005. (Warning: ads on page may autoplay video.) It’s centered around Xbox ...

Academic researchers found two new speculative execution flaws The pair are affecting M2 and M3 processors Apple has ...

Apple has released urgent security updates across its major platforms to address two newly discovered zero-day vulnerabilities that were actively exploited in targeted attacks. The flaws, affecting ...

For customers that already implemented both sets of patches, VMware shared a config line shutting off Intel's speculative execution control mechanism which implements the functionality at the ...